Like the previous films Jack Reacher (played by Tom Cruise) is an independent former American soldier rank of Major. This time Reacher see the fact that a friend named Susan Turner (played by Cobbie Smulders), were charged with the crime of leaking state secrets.

With the belief that Susan innocent, Reacher tried to free Susan and then conduct a joint investigation of what actually happened. Susan suspicions about their illicit transactions took them to a company Parasource, a company owned by an US Army General.

With the conditions become more difficult, because it turns out Reacher thought to have a daughter from her relationship with someone in the past, and unfortunately a daughter named Samantha Dayton (played by Danika Yarosh) became involved with the conflict between Reacher and Susan with Parasource